3 Quotes & Sayings By Conway Zirkle

Conway Zirkle was born in 1905 in Baker County, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1925. From his graduation until he entered the army in May 1940, Zirkler was employed by the Atlanta newspaper Alonzo Carter. While recovering from a heart attack in 1945, he wrote "Introduction to Self-Help," which was published by the Foundation.

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The proponents of Marxian biology appear in unexpected places. In the early disputes over evolution, the most effective aid to the Marxian line came from the humanitarian but conservative Christians, who not only rejected evolution on theological grounds, but who also looked with horror on the amoral viciousness of what they took to be natural selection. Marx himself had also objected to the competitive aspects of natural selection, so both his followers and the more conservative religious groups found themselves on the same side. In fact, the Marxian biologists of the last seventy-five years had their pathways made smooth by the Victorian fundamentalists. . Conway Zirkle
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A knowledge both of the factors of evolution and how they operate in human society becomes necessary if we are to develop a sound social order. Conway Zirkle